Word: gide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observed 74-year-old Novelist Gide: "I am too well known, my reputation is too big, and I am too old." (Academician-Admiral Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze...
...earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Examining society in clear, frank prose as he traveled restlessly from country to country, Gide became a legendary figure. Would-be disciples were harshly discouraged. "Throw away my book," Gide told them, "say to yourself that [mine] is only one of the thousand possible attitudes towards life. Search out your...
When France fell, many of Gide's attackers showed up on the Nazi side. Ardently anti-Nazi, Gide continued to needle his enemies in articles for the Paris Figaro. Said Britain's Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) last year: "He has remained an individualist in an age which imposes discipline. ... It seemed to us, as we listened to Gide, that here was a light which the darkness could...
...Among Gide's 70-odd volumes of prose (mostly essays and novels), poems, plays and prefaces, are translations of poems by William Blake, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...